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Hymn For Georgie Radford

...Sing a hymn for Georgie Radford
Who used to build ships on the Clyde
Watch them launch down the slipway 
With a worker’s quiet pride.
His last job was the giant carrier,
The one they put in moth...

Categories: slipway, bereavement, memorial, memory, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

SS Southern Cross - the Old Lady of the Sea

...
   Built in a Belfast shipyard
 for Shaw Savill ‘n Albion Line.
   On her flagstaff wind ‘n lee
 flew the Southern Cross ensign,
   down a slipway to the sea
 launched afar by Her Majesty
...

Categories: slipway, childhood, voyage,
Form: Rhyme

The Letter

...The Letter         

A young man strolled along the waterfront,
His mind and heart at ease.
Said an old man, sitting on an upturned punt,
Gazing out towards the sea. 

“Come sit by me and lend...

Categories: slipway, boy, happiness, irony, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

In the Blink of An Eye

...The old Luzzu lies on a slipway beneath the sun’s strong rays
           In one of Malta’s most beautiful Mediterranean bays

An elderly fisherman gasps when he sees the damage on his luzzu boat
...

Categories: slipway, autumn, beautiful, boat, education,
Form: Free verse

Stock Market Drivel

...Torrid sunshine blisters reign on pavement,
that colour coded coffee stain slipway,
bearer of insole-laden footwear,
open source channel for glib hot air calculus  from starchy social climber, sto...

Categories: slipway, art, character, courage, creation,
Form: Prose Poetry

Stories In Pottery

...STORIES  IN  POTTERY 


Bluebirds above the azure lakes
Burleigh cups  - willow pattern trees in gold leaf -
Once with mashed Sichuan oolong,
And on their side plates, shortbread tiffin,
While...

Categories: slipway, memory,
Form: Free verse

For Lena

...Effortless strangers along the beach,
Hoards of people, so strange to me.
Buoyed islands and mast sails that spreading distance of light,
Embers on rod trails to grey shadows night.

Clock face ...

Categories: slipway, absence,
Form: Free verse

The Main Event

...The main event

I see you lying in the shadows
Grime-covered, keel upturned
Alongside the very slipway
That offers entry to your true element
The fulfillment of your created nature.
On the hor...

Categories: slipway, inspirational
Form: Free verse

Mystic Tinklings

...Mystic Tinklings


Mystic tinklings
	Ancient echoes from the past
Fleeting inklings
	Glimmer just beyond your grasp

Phantom footfalls
	When you know that you’re alone
Echoed choircalls
	O...

Categories: slipway, angst, confusion, fantasy, history,
Form: Quatrain